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65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 006

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 271 pages · text by OCR, confidence 97%

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From the source:Release of 2026-05-08 Incident: N/A, N/A. The FBI's 62-HQ-83894 case file includes investigative records, eyewitness testimonies, and public reports concerning Unidentified Flying Objects and flying discs documented between June 1947 and July 1968. The records include high-profile incident accounts, photographic evidence from sites like Oak Ridge, TN, and technical proposals regarding potential propulsion systems. Additional topics include convention programs, researcher accounts, and extensive media coverage from the period. This file is partially posted on FBI vault with more redactions and some pages missing. Included here is the complete case file with several newly declassified pages and only minor redactions.

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INDEXED - 46 RECORDED - 46 62-83894-274 EX.-47 May 13, 1952 Mr. W. B. Burgess Box 147 Black Mountain, North Carolina Dear Mr. Burgess: Your letter dated May 7, 1952, has been received and I appreciate the interest prompting you to bring your observations to my attention. Since the matter you mention may be of interest to another governmental agency, I am referring a copy of your letter to The Honorable, The Secretary of Defense, The Pentagon, Washington, D. C., and you may wish to write him directly in this connection. Sincerely yours, John Edgar Hoover Director copy of incoming sent to Dep't. of Defense by form DIC:gr Tolman Ladd Nichols Belmont Clegg Olavin Harbo Rosen Tracy Laughlin Mohr Tele. No. Holloman Gandy 60 MAY 23 1952 MAILED TO MAY 14 1952 Comm. rd. RECEIVED READING ROOM MAY 13 6 26 PM '52 U.S. DEPT OF JUSTICE F B I [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]

Cases discussed

The Green Fireballs over New Mexico 1948
green fireballs, discs and meteors in the vicinity of sensitive installations in New Mexico
The Lubbock Lights 1951
the Lubbock Lights, which appeared in the sky near Lubbock, Texas, last summer

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Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model (mean confidence 97%); expect the odd misread word. 271 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.